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I'd
like
my
work
environment
to
go,
please.
Stick
a
thermometer
into
tech
development
clusters
in
2012
and
you'll
quickly
find
that
nothing's
hotter
than
mobile.
There's
good
reason
for
that
--
people
love
the
portability
and
simplicity
of
the
smart-device
platform,
be
it
tablets
or
phones,
and
they
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The
problem
with
the
phrase
‘business
agility,’
if
you
ask
me,
is
that
it
has
now
officially
been
used
too
many
times,
in
too
many
different
ways,
to
mean
anything
very
definite.
I
therefore
propose
getting
rid
of
this
particular
adjective/noun
combo
and
replacing
it
with
a
verb:
respond.
Four
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Here's
a
straightforward
proposition:
Software
is
more
and
more
critical
to
the
success
of
business
strategies.
So
it's
getting
more
and
more
critical
to
develop
that
software
properly
in
the
first
place.
Sounds
simple
enough,
right?
Just
hire
good
engineers
who
don't
write
spaghetti
code
and
who
play
well
with
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It
always
surprises
me
to
see
tremendous
potential
go
almost
completely
unrealized
and
undeveloped.
A
specific
example:
Recently
I
saw
a
YouTube
video
featuring
a
guitar
worth
somewhere
north
of
a
quarter
million
bucks.
Yet
the
dealer
who
was
trying
to
sell
this
guitar
had
recorded
himself
playing
it
with...
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In
a
previous
blog
entry
I
said
that
one
of
the
surest
roads
to
business
success
lies
in
understanding
who
customers
are,
what
they
want
and
how
best
to
deliver
that.
But
what
happens
when
customers
don't
know
what
they
want?
This
is
a
bit
more
awkward;
now
the
organization
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IBM
Software
is
choc-a-block
with
talented
bloggers
and
subject
matter
experts,
and
from
time
to
time
I
like
to
shine
the
spotlight
on
the
great
work
they're
doing
in
other
areas
of
the
company.
Today's
example
comes
from
Timothy
Hahn,
a
20-year
IBM
veteran
and
Distinguished
Engineer
now
responsible
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I
have
a
friend
in
Canada
who
doesn't
trust
technology.
For
years
we've
discussed
this
over
the
Internet
--
the
standard
communications
platform
for
people
who
want
to
argue
at
great
length,
across
great
distances,
to
no
apparent
benefit
or
conclusion.
His
idea
is
that
since
he
didn't
design
and
... [ + Read more ]

If
for
some
unimaginable
reason
you’re
not
already
an
IBM
Software
Newsletter
subscriber,
March
offers
a
couple
of
extra
incentives
to
subscribe:
Our
annual
(and
always
popular)
Pulse
recap.
Our
March
issue
(which
mails
March
14)
will
connect
you
to
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the
top
product
announcements
made
at
Pulse
2012
(March
4-7
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Love
and
marriage.
Spring
and
allergies.
Bad
economies
and
ROI.
These
concepts
often
come
in
pairs,
and
for
good
reason:
when
the
first
comes
along,
we
need
to
pay
more
attention
to
the
second.
This
is
certainly
true
for
the
third
example
I've
listed
above.
For
both
individuals
and
organizations,
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For
Jerry
Cuomo,
Business
Agility
began
at
Best
Buy.A
few
months
back,
the
CTO
of
IBM’s
WebSphere
technologies
was
shopping
for
a
washing
machine.
His
family
had
a
washing
machine,
but
a
disturbing
string
of
higher-than-usual
energy
bills
hinted
at
the
impending
need
for
a
more
energy-efficient
model.Cuomo
suspected
his